Tag: reviews

What is just about the best thing you can receive through the post? As a blogger, I do get some weird and wonderful parcels (you should see some of the stuff I say a polite No Thank You to!) but the best thing I’ve had this month has to be …

Could you feed your family for a day for £2 a head? My initial thought was that, no, there is no way I could do that. To feed everyone for £8 a day, even thought two are not quite full sized yet, sounded impossible. These kids eat a lot, but they are …

Remember back in December, when we had our garden office built? No? Let me jog your memory. Despite the fact it’s bitterly cold outside at the moment we have been making regular use of it; Doug (daddy; seems a bit weird to refer to him as that out of context …

I was recently invited by Oxfam to attend and review a special charity opening night performance of Cique Du Soleil’s Amaluna at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Now, there are few things that this mum enjoys more than a care and child free evening out, but they are, sadly, something …

I first approached me&i, a Swedish clothing company, not for the children but for myself (selfish, I know right). I was due to attend Blogfest and I fancied something new to wear, as all my clothes seem to have shrunk in the wash since I had children. Ahem. I liked …

Last week, I was very excited to be invited along to Bluestone in the very far reaches of West Wales as a Bluestone Blogger, and attend the Bluestone Kingdom of the Elves! December is, traditionally, a bit of a chilly and wet affair in Wales. I lived there for three …

Well well; the log cabin garden office which we’ve been deliberating over for a year, and planning for about three months is finally here. We started looking at getting ourselves a garden office back in 2015, but once we’d factored in the electrics, the insulation, the build etc etc we …

I’ve mentioned before that my husband and I have the same birthday. Bloody cheek of it. There are some ways in which it’s really convenient to share a birthday; he’s never forgotten. In a life before children, we used to be able to do something fun together like go away …

One thing that birthdays lose as you get older is the element of surprise. If you actually get any presents at all, they are usually ones you’ve specifically asked for or at least circled in the Argos catalogue left open on the appropriate page. Or slippers. For kids though, birthdays …

As you’ll probably know, my laptop is still broken. Well, it might be fixed, but whatever state it is in, I do not have it. Rather annoyingly, I’d written the best part of a ‘happy birthday’ post and then saved it – not in Blogger (yes, gasp, I’m still on …